**UPDATE** This giveaway has ended. CONGRATULATIONS to the winners: Tasha Foulger and Daphne Gaspard! Thank you to everyone who entered!!**

Enter to win a ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION to GROCERY SHRINK PLUS {Shrink your bills & grow your pantry} on Kara’s Party Ideas! TWO winners!

“Hi, I’m Angela Coffman, a mother of 6 with a passion for helping families use their money wisely while promoting family togetherness. You may have seen me recently on TLC or the 700 Club sharing my favorite tips.

It’s a pleasure to write to Kara’s readers today. When I think of you, I think of someone who is super creative, hard working, and cares a lot about other people. When you plan an amazing party or hand make decorations and treats it’s so someone you care about will feel truly loved.

On a smaller scale, we have the opportunity to do the same thing every night for our families. Studies show that families who sit down to eat together are healthier, have stronger relationships, have kids who do better in school, and are happier. Who wouldn’t want that?

If you could only manage one thing, eating together as a family trumps a clean house, gourmet food, or home décor. But thankfully you don’t have to choose!

I know it can feel overwhelming to decide what to cook day in and day out. The busier you are, the harder it is. It’s easy to get in a rut, making the same recipes every week. Or to rely on convenience foods so often that you worry about the nutrition your family receives.

At Grocery Shrink Plus , I’ve made it my mission to give families a blueprint for healthy meals complete with a shopping list and action plan so you can see at a glance what you need to do that day. We use slow cookers; make ahead foods, and healthy homemade mixes too. That way busy moms like us can still do all the awesome things we do and deliver on fabulous family meals too.”

There are many meal planning services out there to choose from, but a lot of mothers think Grocery Shrink Plus is the best. Here’s why:

1. The recipes are pre-adjusted for different size families. So whether your family has 2, 4, 8 or 12 members you can cook the right amount without math work.

2. There are suggestions to make the meal gluten free or dairy free. And as often as possible, they show you how to create your own specialty foods at home to save on your grocery bill.

3. If you are trying to lose weight, there is a “Fit Mama” section on every recipe page. This tells you specifically what to eat and how much to continue to make strides on your fitness plan. Usually it’s just a slight modification from what the family is eating so you can all sit down together.

4. Most meal plans cost around $5 a month for just 5 dinner recipes a week. GSP is the same cost for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack recipes 7 days a week. That is 22 extra recipes for the same price! If you only want to fix dinners from the plan you can still do that and file the extra recipes away for another day.

5. There is a nice variety of foods every week, but they are all created from basic pantry staples. So if you end up not cooking a meal for some reason and have already purchased the food for it, those ingredients will be used in the near future for a different meal.

6. You can make as much or as little as you want from scratch. There are recipes for homemade breads, spice mixes, etc. But if all that is overwhelming, the shopping list tells you what to buy instead.

7. Our recipes are budget friendly. We use everyday low priced foods for the majority of our ingredients, and vary the fresh fruit and vegetable choices so you are using them during the season when they are most affordable.

Still not convinced? We have a facebook group that you can join even if you aren’t a menu subscriber yet. You can snoop around there and see what other moms are saying about the plan.
As awesome as Grocery Shrink plus is, it’s not for everyone. If you are committed to a vegan diet style or have egg allergies, this plan won’t be a good fit.